A Department of Correction assistant deputy warden charges she was taunted by her colleagues as a “snitch” and “sell out” for blowing the whistle on sexual assault within the agency – including one instance last year when a male colleague “pressed his erect penis into her backside.”

In an $8 million Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit filed Tuesday, Sonya Harvey says she was passed up for a promotion and denied a raise for a year because she called out the disgusting culture at the DOC.

The retaliation against Harvey, who’s worked at the DOC for 27 years, began after she reported to higher-ups in early 2016 that Capt. Timothy Cowen sexually harassed her and sexually assaulted a female corrections officer, the suit alleges.

“You like nuts in your mouth?” Cowen allegedly asked Harvey as she ate a candy bar. “How would you like my nuts in your mouth?”

Harvey alleges that during a criminal probe into Cowen’s behavior, investigators from the DOC’s Office of Equal Employment Opportunity went after her instead.

They grilled her about a prior lawsuit she filed in 2012 – alleging she was sexually harassed by her boss – and accused her of forcing female colleagues into complaining about Cowen.

That “made Harvey feel that sexual assault and harassment was going to be covered up,” her suit says.

The retaliation allegedly intensified in 2017 after Harvey claimed she and another female corrections officer were sexually harassed again — this time by Deputy Warden Robert Kelly.

Kelly brushed up against Harvey from behind and “pressed his erect penis into her backside” – then told her he “knew how she gives it up,” court papers say.

The fresh complaints prompted Harvey’s coworkers to blacklist her as “EEO Queen” and a “gold digger.”

Harvey lawyered up, claiming her bosses and the EEO did nothing about her complaints – and that’s when she said she was stripped of overtime pay and relocated to another location.

She also lost out on a lucrative gig as a delegate with the Correction Captains’ Association.

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“The vicious and demeaning retaliatory conduct was done in order to intimidate and force Harvey out of her position at the DOC, to discontinue her complaints to the EEO and to punish and retaliate against her,” the suit says, adding that sexual harassment at DOC is “so widespread that it is part of the culture.”

In it, she alleged a slew of perverted behavior by her then-supervisor Gennaro Agovino. She claimed he once exposed himself, masturbated and ejaculated in her direction and frequently commented on her breasts being “large” and “busting out,” according to the complaint.

Cowen was charged with forcible touching, sexual abuse and harassment. He pleaded guilty last year to harassment and received a conditional discharge.

But to date, nothing has been done about Kelly’s “vile sexually harassing conduct,” Harvey’s suit says.